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- Mary I of Scotland (27810 bytes)
26: ...[Earl of Lennox]] brought forward the Sceptre and placed it in her baby hand, and she grasped the heav...
28: ... the prelates and peers who knelt before her and, placing their hands on her crown, swore allegiance t...
31: ...nce with France. Fearing an uprising among the people, the [[Scottish Parliament]] broke off the treat...
40: ...omising childhood. With her marriage agreement in place, she was sent to [[France]] in [[1548]], at th...
42: ...[[Scots Language|Scots]]. She also learned how to play two instruments and learned prose, horsemanship... - Missouri (16086 bytes)
10: ...I of Sweden]] ([[1809]]) ''"The welfare of the people my highest law")|
44: ...il War|Civil War]], Missouri, a slave state, was split with portions adhering to the Union, and others...
65: North of the Missouri River lie the northern plains that stretch into Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. ...
67: ...is the home of the Ozark mountains, a [[dissected plateau]] surrounding the [[Precambrian]] [[igneous]...
69: ...he [[Bootheel]], part of the Mississippi Alluvial Plain or [[Mississippi embayment]]. This region is t... - List of people by name: Q (4474 bytes)
1: {{List_of_people}}
3: == People named Q ==
71: ...nn, Niall]], (born 1966), Irish football (soccer) player
88: *[[Quo Tai-chi]], (1889-1952), diplomat representing [[Republic of China|Nationalist ... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
1: The following list is an incomplete '''list of painters'''.
281: *[[John Singleton Copley]] ([[1737]]-[[1815]])
616: *[[Leon Kaplinski]] ([[1826]]-[[1873]])
958: *[[Stefan Planinc]] ([[1925]]-)
959: *[[Jan Bogumil Plersch]] ([[1732]]-[[1817]]) - Medieval music (31843 bytes)
7: The general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration....
9: ... is weak, and rhythm cannot be specified. The simplicity of chant, with unison voice and natural decl...
11: ...s lines in a repeatable fashion. The use of multiple texts and instrumental accompaniment has develop...
17: ...out 1240), the treatise which defined and most completely elucidated the [[rhythmic modes]], a notatio...
19: ...t definitely identifiable scholar to accept and explain the mensural system was Johannes de Muris ([[J... - Aviation history (39698 bytes)
3: ...l]] story in [[The Bible]]. Nevertheless, it exemplifies man's desire to fly.
5: ...s are controlled by [[computer]]s, which can make planes that were otherwise unflyable able to fly, su...
15: ...esign, with modern knowledge of aerodynamic principles in mind, was made. Leonardo also sketched desig...
17: ...d examples from nature that such flights can take place without danger, although when the first trials...
19: The first known human flight ever took place in [[Paris]] in [[1783]]. [[Francois Pilatre ... - Age of Enlightenment (36312 bytes)
4: ...] period in the arts, and receives contemporary application in the unity of science movement which inc...
6: ...od, piety and belief were integral parts in the exploration of [[natural philosophy]] and [[ethics]] i...
8: ...sm | empirical]] philosophical ideas, and their application to [[political economy]], [[government]] a...
12: ...purposes, these two eras are [[lumpers/splitters|split]]; however, it is equally acceptable to think o...
14: ...r instability. Instead, (according to those that split the two periods), the Age of Reason sought to e... - List of chemists (10401 bytes)
142: *[[John Pople|John A. Pople]], (1925-2004), [[theoretical chemistry|theoreti...
143: *[[Roy J. Plunkett]], (1910-1984), discoverer of [[Teflon]]
171: *[[K. Barry Sharpless]]. (1941- ) [[2001]] [[Nobel Prize in Chemistr... - Hot air balloon (8769 bytes)
9: ...ith animals, the first manned balloon flight took place on [[21 November]] [[1783]]. King Louis XVI ha...
11: ... air balloon flight in the [[United States]] took place on [[January 9]], [[1793]]. The 45-minute-long...
26: ...ntrol of the descent. The flap is pulled open completely to collapse the balloon after landing. In so... - Pirate (23151 bytes)
2: A '''pirate''' is one who [[Robbery|robs]] or plunders at sea without a commission from a recognis...
8: ...eir governor. Buccaneers were also occasionally employed as privateers.
10: ...were known as '''kapers''' or '''vrijbuiters''' ("plunderers"), the latter combining the words ''vrij'...
12: ...f Malacca]]. Originally a culture of seafaring people, their name became synonymous with piracy in the...
40: ...l freedom of the high seas, and violate the principle ''extra territorium jus dicenti impune non paret... - Benjamin Franklin (22881 bytes)
2: ...blic servant]], [[scientist]], [[librarian]], [[diplomat]], and [[inventor]]. One of the leaders of th...
11: ...ld at Ecton; and over the next few years, this couple had three children, all of whom being half-sibli...
25: ...y earned" are now commonly quoted every day by people all over the world.
27: ...o included works on history, geography, poetry, exploration and science. The success of this library e...
38: ...plied that lightning was electrical. See, for example, the [[1805]] painting by [[Benjamin West]] of '... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
31: *[[Anthemius of Tralles]] (Constantinople c. [[474]] - c. [[534]])
70: *[[Eric Temple Bell]] (Scotland, USA, [[1883]] - [[1960]])
386: *[[Johannes Kepler]] (Germany, [[1571]] - [[1630]])
420: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] (France, [[1749]] - [[1827]])
572: *[[Michel Plancherel]] (Switzerland, [[1885]] - [[1967]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
318: *[[Johannes Kepler]] ([[Germany]], [[1571]] – [[1630]])
346: *[[Pierre-Simon Laplace]] ([[France]], [[1749]] – [[1827]])
463: *[[Philip Plait]] ([[United States|USA]])
464: *[[Giovanni Antonio Amedeo Plana]] ([[Italy]], [[1781]] – [[1864]])
465: *[[John Stanley Plaskett]] ([[Canada]], [[1865]] – [[1941]]) - List of male tennis players (14849 bytes)
1: The following lists male [[tennis]] players from over the years who have been ranked in ...
5: ...assi]] ([[1970]]-) - ([[:Category:American tennis players|United States]])
6: ...eter Aldrich]] - [[:Category:South African tennis players|South Africa]] - doubles specialist
8: ...er]] ([[1951]]-) - ([[:Category:Australian tennis players|Australia]])
10: ...] ([[1895]]-[[1984]]) ([[:Category:Spanish tennis players|Spain]]) - Sebastiano Serlio (4494 bytes)
6: ...the influence that Serlio exerted through the examples in his treatise can be taken by the church faca...
10: ...chitecture'' and printed in London, 1611. Its example countered the influence of the engravings of An...
12: ...ations as the original Italian editions. Serlio's plans and elevations of many Roman buildings, provid... - Caldera (4953 bytes)
7: ===Explosive calderas===
8: ... erupted, and the center of the caldera is often uplifted in the form of a ''resurgent dome'' by subse...
14: ...s. The remnants of such clusters may be found in places such as the [[San Juan Mountains]] of [[Color...
16: ===Non-explosive calderas===
17: ...r is drained by large lava flows rather than by explosive events. The caldera, known as Halema‘... - Blue Crabs (3489 bytes)
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21: ...n-shelled [[bivalve]]s, [[annelids]], [[fish]], [[plants]] and nearly any other item they can find, in... - Hernando de Soto explorer (34946 bytes)
1: ...6/1497 - 1542) was a [[Spanish people|Spanish]] explorer and [[conquistador]] who, while leading the f...
5: ...ertainty is that he spent time as a child at both places, and he stipulated in his will that his body ...
7: ...ever schemes for the extortion of [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|native villages]] for their cap...
12: ... the camp of the Incan army, where he and his men plundered Atahualpa's tents.<ref>MacQuarrie. Pp. 57-...
14: ...rom Atahualpa's camp, Atahualpa's ransom, and the plunder from Cuzco, and had become very wealthy. - Vincent van Gogh (11980 bytes)
11: ...ould join the company later. This friendship is amply documented in the large collection of letters th...
18: ...d remain in Vincent's work, notably in the way he played with light and in the looseness of his brush ...
24: ...ht colors, use of canvas space and the role lines played in the picture. These impressions would influ...
27: ...at cause each other to shine brilliantly, that complete each other like a man and a woman."
30: ...for this purpose. Only [[Paul Gauguin]], whose simplified color schemes and forms (known as [[syntheti... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
7: ...her titles (See "titles" below), and some have simply used 'Head of State' as their only formal title.
12: ...es not automatically imply a [[president]] but simply a head of state, whether elected, hereditary or ...
14: ...lature to remove a president from office (for example, in the [[United States]]). In this case the deb...
16: ...in a parliamentary system and is often seen as simply a politically junior figure who may run the mech...
18: ...ect election, etc) the system also encompasses people who become head of state by other means, notably...
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